The last two of the six String Quartets written by the composer of The Miraculous Mandarin, bringing together the most perfectly balanced between its two night musics, framed by three pillars of an arc built with ‘country’ material as authentic as it is violent (5th), and finally, the distressed, funereal farewell of the 6th with its sad (‘mesto’) ritornello.

The first two of the six String Quartets written by the composer of The Bluebard’s Castle, bringing together the most perfectly balanced between its two night musics, framed by three pillars of an arc built with ‘country’ material as authentic as it is violent (5th), and finally, the distressed, funereal farewell of the 6th with its sad (‘mesto’) ritornello.

Tchaikovsky wrote little in the way of chamber music but left three masterpieces: the Piano Trio, Op.50, Sextet “Souvenir de Florence”, Op.70, both of them 'tombeaux' in memory of departed friends, and the third and final Quartet, in the strange, feverish key of E flat minor, of which Chopin was fond, in memory of violinist Ferdinand Laub (1832-1875). At the first performance, the Andante funebre e doloroso had reduced the audience to tears. The Párkányís, the resurrection of the Orlandos of 1976-84, again find a smile with a youthful Quartet Movement, in homage to the masters of the genre: Beethoven and Schubert.